As Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Speculative Design at University of California, San Diego, Director of Antikythera, an cross-disciplinary think tank researching the philosophy of computation supported by Berggruen Institute, and Visiting Faculty Researcher in Google's Paradigms of Intelligence group, Benjamin Bratton stands at a unique intersection point between the worlds of academia, design, and technology. In his prior books, like 02015’s The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty and 02019’s The Terraforming, he explored the intentional and inadvertent ways humanity has reshaped the planet around it through the creation of complex technological infrastructure.